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Welcome to the Kildare Steiner School website. Our school is situated in the rolling countryside of County Kildare and bordering on Wicklow - "the garden of Ireland". We have two kindergartens and a primary school from classes 1 to 6.
Steiner Education
Steiner or Waldorf education is the fastest growing independent school movement in the world. Based on the pedagogical work of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), it aims to educate the child in a whole and complete way. Steiner recognised that the human being comprises of not just the faculty of thinking but also feeling and willing or doing. In the world of today there is an unbalanced, over emphasis on the development of the intellect in our schools and little time spent on developing artistic and practical skills. Children have different strengths and aptitudes and a Steiner education takes the approach that all are equally valid. While it is important and intrinsic to the Steiner approach that the child develops the skills of reading, writing and arithmetic - intellectual development - the child is also aided in the devlopment of his artistic and practical skills. In fact they are seen as complementary to each other. Steiner saw that there are different stages in the development of a child and that with this in mind the education aims to work with these developmental stages so that a proper foundation is built. For more information please click here.